Walt Disney World

Walt Disney World officials say a bronze statue of Bill Cosby is being removed from the Hollywood Studios theme park. Local news outlets report the statue was being removed after the park closed Tuesday night. Disney offered no other comment. The removal of the statute at Disney's Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Plaza came after court documents unsealed Monday revealed that Cosby testified in 2005 that he'd obtained quaaludes with the intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with. The 77-year-old Cosby hasn't commented on the documents, which were secret for a decade until Monday, after The Associated Press went to court to get them...

Related "Walt Disney World" Articles

Walt Disney World officials say a bronze statue of Bill Cosby is being removed from the Hollywood Studios theme park.
Local news outlets report the statue was being removed after the park closed Tuesday night. Disney offered no other comment.
The...

Michael O'Connell, a 2013 graduate of Joliet Catholic Academy, has done something that not many people can say they have done: he spent an entire semester learning from Mickey and Minnie Mouse. "Last year, I spent the spring semester at Disney World,...

Of the hundreds of Elgin shootings that stick in my mind from the mid-1990s are two: one during rush hour on State Street and the other near Garfield School when classes were letting out.
I remember covering both shootings as the night reporter for the...

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have produced the first lab-grown limb. The living rat's leg is a beginning. Laboratory scientists remain a long way from creating an entire reality TV star.
Disney and the NBA say they're developing an...

"If only you believe like I believe baby
We'd get by
If only you believe in miracles baby
So would I"
— Marty Balin (Jefferson Starship)
Miracle Resendez, 31, lives outside of DeMotte near Interstate 65. She has two daughters, ages 15 and...

People just don't seem to get it. Theme parks don't want you using selfie sticks on their rides.
So on Friday, Walt Disney World went a step further to make that point. It posted a "No Selfie Sticks" sign at the Magic Kingdom's Big Thunder...

Educational television can take many forms and for the Freedman family of Deerfield one of the shows of choice for two generations has been "Wheel of Fortune."
Dana Freedman learned so well as a child and later watching the game with her...

A group of dancers from Niles North High School's Varsity Vikette competitive dance squad had a taste of Disney stardom when they traveled to Disney World recently to train for and perform Disney-themed routines in front of a massive live audience.
The...

On a stereotypically muggy morning last summer at the entrance to Walt Disney World, a member of our extended traveling party announced to security that he would not place his index finger on a scanning device, as required for entry.
Within seconds, a...

On Sunday in Fox Lake, a group of young people, their parents, neighbors and friends came together in support of former Chicago Bears running back Adrian Peterson, his wife, Angela, and their 7-year-old terminally ill son, AJ.
They swapped stories,...

On Sunday in Fox Lake, a group of young people, their parents, neighbors and friends came together in support of former Chicago Bears running back Adrian Peterson, his wife, Angela, and their 7-year-old, terminally ill son, AJ.
They swapped stories,...

Librarians who choose the books and other media for the Deerfield Public Library all have masters degrees, but what they know best is their community. The most borrowed books and other media for 2014 show some resemblance to national trends but also give...

The band, choir and orchestra from Hampshire High School took advantage of a long holiday weekend to perform at the happiest place on earth. The Hampshire High School Marching Band performed in the Thanksgiving Day Parade of Bands at Walt Disney...

"National Geographic London Book of Lists: The City's Best, Worst, Oldest, Greatest, & Quirkiest"
National Geographic, $19.95
London is endlessly fascinating, a city so iconic that even if people have never been there, they recognize its...

The celebration of the Jackie Robinson West Little League team’s national championship continued Friday as team members and their families flew to Disney World on a trip sponsored by United Airlines and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
The boys and...

The year is 1988. The sun is just about to set and Wolfram Huber’s gourmet food preparation class at Joliet Junior College is just beginning. Newlyweds Scott and Marianne Hunnel assume their positions, working side by side in the kitchen at JJC’s...

As regular readers of this column know, my last vacation involved a cactus and the unfortunate perforation of my buttocks. (Thank you for all the sympathy cards.)
So I'm pleased to report that on a recent trip to Disney World — aka "Mickey Mouse's...

The Central Middle School Marching Band and Drill Team had quite the spring break. In March the two groups traveled to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. for four nights, and were given the opportunity to play for the Disney World visitors.
Both the band...

Local Chicago residents, Jacqui Clark and Sherri Cuda have been named members of the 2013 Disney Parks Moms Panel (www.disneyparksmomspanel.com), an online forum where guests can access tips and insights from real moms, dads, grandparents and guardians...